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November 16 - November 26, 2020
The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, the formal name of this grab-bag collection of geniuses, misfits, and eccentrics, was by most accounts the first official scientific organization in the world.
“All disorder,� wrote Alexander Pope, was “harmony not understood.� The world was an orderly text to those who knew how to read it, a tangle of blotches and squiggles to those who did not. God was the author of that text, and mankind’s task was to study His creation, secure in the knowledge that every word and letter reflected divine purpose.
